RC Compaan writes:
I have a list: mylist=[('R',31),('I',80),('A',80),('S',23),('E',35),('C',21)]
I want to rebuild the list sorted from high to low on the sequence-item.
When i call <dtml-in mylist sort=sequence-item reverse> the list gets sorted on the sequence-key not the sequence-item. As I understand the alphabetical characters are the sequence-keys and the float values are the sequence-items.
Where do misunderstand? What you see is caused by the following code in "DocumentTemplate.DT_In.InClass.__init__":
if has_key('sort'): self.sort=sort=args['sort'] if sort=='sequence-item': self.sort='' This means, "dtml-in sort=sequence-item" does not sort by "sequence-item" but by the complete tuple (key,item). I think, the special treatment of lists of pairs is altogether a slight misfeature. It would probably have been better to use a special "dict" attribute in analogy to the "mapping" attribute to call for the special pair interpretation. 'sequence-item' should then still be the complete item and 'sequence-value' the second pair component. Probably, it is too late by now to change this. Dieter